Free Gas!!!

(AP Photo/HO/TLC)

Usually the subjects of our blog posts are a cliche or a play on words or just plain silly. But when we wrote "Free Gas!!!" up there, The Slug really means free gas. If you happen to be in or around New York and want some, the Teutul boys from "American Chopper" will be celebrating their TLC premiere tomorrow — that's Jan. 18, 2007 — by pumping on-the-house petrol for private and commercial cars (sorry, commercial trucks!) beginning at 11 a.m. at the BP station on the corner of Lafayette and Houston in Manhattan. Staged publicity events usually illicit a groan or yawn from The Slug, but this is free gas, friends. Free. Gasoline.

UPDATE: Boo. Today's event has been canceled. According to a TLC spokesman: "While the permitting was all lined up in NYC, apparently some of the corporate permissions hadn't gone through the proper channels at BP/marketing agency/TLC. We are really disappointed. It was such a fun idea."